PMA3 review 1

The excerpt is from a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in 1858 in Springfield, IL.

A house divided against itself, cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

Which development caused the “house divided” that Lincoln referenced in his speech? 

• Tariffs

• Slavery

• Compromise

• Emancipation

Caption: Effectives of the Fugitive Slave Law

What was an immediate consequence of the development shown in the cartoon?

• Southern states could deny the right to vote to enslaved people.

• Newly admitted states could choose to permit slavery by popular vote.

• Congress declared that slavery was unconstitutional.

• Citizens could be imprisoned for helping people who had escaped slavery.

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act intensify sectional tensions before the Civil War?

• Missouri disrupted the balance of slave & free states when it was admitted into the Union.

• Popular sovereignty could determine whether new territories would allow slavery.

• California was admitted into the United States as a free state.

• Congress banned slavery in territories North of the 36°30′ parallel.

What was an effect of BOTH the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act before the Civil War?

• Abolitionists lost political power due to Westward expansion.

• Economic competition increased between the North and the South.

• New states opened larger markets for goods manufactured by slaves.

• Disputes about slavery in new states fueled conflict between the North and South.

What was a consequence of the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sanford?

• 1. Sectional tensions increased because Congress lost its authority to regulate slavery.

• 1. Sectional tensions increased because SCOTUS granted the right to vote to all enslaved people.

• 1. Sectional tensions decreased because SCOTUS affirmed the Compromise of 1850.

• 1. Sectional tensions decreased because Congress divided the country into an even number of slave states & free states